CLEVELAND, Miss. – It would be safe to say that Missouri S&T's swimming team took nothing for granted Saturday night, even as it entered the evening with a sizeable lead on the road to a sixth consecutive New South Intercollegiate Swimming Championships title.

The Miners wrapped up that championship in solid fashion on the final night of the meet, having at least two of its competitors earn spots among the top eight in each of the five individual events and finished the night by taking fourth in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

Saturday's performance put S&T's final point total at 752 points, which was 97.5 points ahead of runner-up Delta State.

On Saturday, Ethan Goldfarb (Arlington, Texas/The Oakridge School) picked up his second event win in as many nights, taking the title in the 200-yard breaststroke in a time of 2:02.52 in a win of more than two seconds over Ouachita Baptist's Matt Pope.

S&T's Jacob Dole (Corbin, Ky./Country Day School) took third in the 100-yard freestyle in 45.25 seconds as did Phil Arve (Raleigh, N.C./Athens Drive) in the 200-butterfly in 1:51.93 and Nate Kamrath (Newburgh, Ind./Castle) in the 200-yard backstroke in 1:53.48, while Hayden Price (Powder Springs, Ga./Hillgrove) came in fourth in the latter event in 1:53.77.  The Miners also got a fourth place finish from Matt Welsh (Wildwood, Mo./Lafayette) in the 1,650-yard freestyle in a time of 16:03.16; he was followed by Ryan Layne (Houston, Texas/Cypress Creek) in fifth in 16:08.35.

Matt Zieger (St. Joseph, Mo./Central) finished fifth in the 100-free in 46.29 seconds as did Andrew Simek (O'Fallon, Mo./Fort Zumwalt West) in the 200-breaststroke in 2:07.90, while Alfredo Martinez (Mexico City, Mexico/Instituto Cumbres San Javier) took eighth in the 200-butterfly in a time of 1:56.16.

The Miners' relay team of Zieger, Price, Luke Norris (The Woodlands, Texas/The Woodlands) and Dole finished in a time of 3:01.96 – a time that surpassed the old meet record – to land its fourth place finish.

The Miners also got a consolation finals win from Luis Nesrala (Santo Domingo, D.R./Colegio Amador) in the 200-backstroke in 1:53.65 and from Ryan Gibson (Jackson, Mo./Jackson) in the 200-butterfly in 1:55.77.  S&T also got scoring efforts in the B-finals from Norris and Sean Deegan (Kansas City, Mo./Park Hill) in the 100-freestyle in 46.80 and 46.92, respectively, and Alex Griffin (Chesterfield, Mo./Marquette) in the 200-breaststroke in 2:12.66.

S&T's second 400-free relay team of Nesrala, Sasha Stadnik (Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley West), Arve and Deegan placed ninth in 3:07.64.

Missouri S&T will learn on Wednesday as to which of its swimmers will get to compete at the NCAA Division II Championships next month in Mansfield, Texas.

Complete NSISC Championships results